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Antigua , Account of the ImprefTion upon a Stone dug 
up there — — — 295 
Mr. Arthur Pond his Defcription thereof — 297 
■ Account of the Quantity of Rain fallen there for 
Four Years — — — 295 
Antioch , iti Latitude — — — 252 
Antiquities difcovered at Herculaneum 109, no, 1 12, 490 
Antifles of America , Oblervations on the Currents of the 
Sea there — — • — 624 
Antonio (Father, a Writer at the Vatican ), his Artifice for 
unrolling the Manufcripts, which were dug out ot the 
Ruins of an Edifice near Herculaneum — 1 13 
Apogee of the Moon , the Inequalities produced by its Pofi- 
tion in the Precefiion of the Equinoxes, and in the Obli- 
quity of the Ecliptic — — 722 
Arderon (Mr. Wm.) Letter from him concerning the Agi- 
tation of the Water at Hunflon and Tar mouth, in Nor- 
folk , on the iff of iVW. 1755 • — 380 
Arm, Paralytic , Cure thereof by Eledhicity — 558 
Arteries , fome remarkable Experiments made upon them 
with the Powder of Lycoperdon — — 36, 93, 264 
Arzila , Account of the Earthquake there on the 1 ft of 
Nov. 1 755 — — — 429 
Afa Ftftida, how produced — — • 253 
Afcanius {Peter, M. D.) his Letter concerning a Moun- 
tain of Iron Ore in Szveden — • — 30 
Afcent of Vapours, concerning the Caufe thereof — ,124 
Afta, Account of fome new Aftronomical and Phyfical 
Obfervations made there — — 251 
Aftronomical Obfervations made in Afia , a fhort Account of 
them — — — 251 
Advantages of taking the Mean of a 
Number of them — — — 82 
Axis of the Earth, its Nutation • — — 704 
B. 
Bagdad, its Latitude — — — 252 
Baily (Mr. Wm.) his Method of encreafing the Force of 
the Fire-Engine — — — 312 
Baker 
